The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 81
“Run fast,” said the Scarecrow to the Lion, “and get out of this deadly flower bed as soon as you can.
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: run, say, get out · To what, where: Lion, deadly flower bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 2 | Run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Run | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Scarecrow | det |
| 8 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Lion | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 bed | nsubj |
| 19 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bed | amod |
| 20 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bed | compound |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 soon | advmod |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 get | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 can | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 can | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 soon | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | infinitive | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lion=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get out in a quote | infinitive | the Scarecrow not said here | deadly flower bed | soon property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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